Addleshaw Booth & Co

This article is about Addleshaw Booth & Co prior to its May 2003 merger with Theodore Goddard. For the successor firm, see Addleshaw Goddard

Addleshaw Booth & Co was an English law firm which merged with Theodore Goddard in May 2003.

Itself the product of a merger between Booth & Co. and Addleshaw Sons & Latham, Addleshaw Booth was a 'heavyweight' in the North of England legal sector, with offices in Leeds and Manchester.[1] Its local standing, amongst other things, led to the firm's high-profile appointment as the official lawyers to the 2002 Commonwealth Games.[2]

Addleshaw Booth was the employer of Sally Clark (and also her husband), the solicitor wrongly convicted of murdering her two sons in 1999.[3]

It was a member of the Norton Rose M5 alliance, which disbanded in 1998.[4]

However, the firm's small office in London, and its failure to garner City-based clients, led to the tie-up with Theodore Goddard in the spring of 2003 to become Addleshaw Goddard.[5] Seen by many commentators in the legal sector as a takeover, the majority of the management board of the new firm were made up of Addleshaw Booth & Co's partners.[6]

References

  1. ^ The Lawyer TG partners braced for Addleshaws takeover, Naomi Rovnick 17 February 2003
  2. ^ BBC Sport Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games Official Partners
  3. ^ Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 19 March 2007.
  4. ^ Norton Rose M5 alliance agrees to disband in August from The Lawyer
  5. ^ Legal Business Profile of Addleshaw Goddard
  6. ^ The Lawyer Theodores partners vote for takeover by Addleshaws, Naomi Rovnick 16 April 2003